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Mesa Verde's Secret Garden: A History of Managing the Backcountry and Wilderness of a National Park

Christopher Barns

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Description:Mesa Verde National Park is the only congressionally designated land-based Wilderness to prohibit all recreational use. While backcountry use was encouraged for decades, stewardship changed over time as "gardening" the park for aesthetic purposes decreased while secrecy increased. The reasons for these changes, as Christopher Barns discovered, are multifaceted, but ultimately they reflect a desire to protect the park's thousands of archaeological sites, including six hundred Ancestral Puebloan cliff dwellings, while allowing natural processes to continue. However, most of the park is without recognizable cultural features, and if the public is prohibited from experiencing the surrounding landscape, Barns asks, what is being protected and for whom?Mesa Verde's Secret Garden is an authoritative history of Mesa Verde National Park's management. The book utilizes unpublished primary sources from the park's archives--including internal memos, public reports, interviews, and anonymous marginalia--and contextualizes them in the evolving (and often conflicting) federal and local priorities for Wilderness, conservation, and the national parks. The result of this painstaking research is a fascinating chronicle of national-park administration and development over a nearly 120-year history that provides unique insights into the people and protocols that have shaped the very landscape of Mesa Verde.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Mesa Verde's Secret Garden: A History of Managing the Backcountry and Wilderness of a National Park. To get started finding Mesa Verde's Secret Garden: A History of Managing the Backcountry and Wilderness of a National Park, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: Mesa Verde National Park is the only congressionally designated land-based Wilderness to prohibit all recreational use. While backcountry use was encouraged for decades, stewardship changed over time as "gardening" the park for aesthetic purposes decreased while secrecy increased. The reasons for these changes, as Christopher Barns discovered, are multifaceted, but ultimately they reflect a desire to protect the park's thousands of archaeological sites, including six hundred Ancestral Puebloan cliff dwellings, while allowing natural processes to continue. However, most of the park is without recognizable cultural features, and if the public is prohibited from experiencing the surrounding landscape, Barns asks, what is being protected and for whom?Mesa Verde's Secret Garden is an authoritative history of Mesa Verde National Park's management. The book utilizes unpublished primary sources from the park's archives--including internal memos, public reports, interviews, and anonymous marginalia--and contextualizes them in the evolving (and often conflicting) federal and local priorities for Wilderness, conservation, and the national parks. The result of this painstaking research is a fascinating chronicle of national-park administration and development over a nearly 120-year history that provides unique insights into the people and protocols that have shaped the very landscape of Mesa Verde.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Mesa Verde's Secret Garden: A History of Managing the Backcountry and Wilderness of a National Park. To get started finding Mesa Verde's Secret Garden: A History of Managing the Backcountry and Wilderness of a National Park, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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